"This charming and important #memoir starts with two mothers in a cold #London playground talking about where to send their young #children to school. One mother says she would like her son to go to a French nursery so he could grow up with two #languages, just like her. But then this playground moment takes a surprising turn.

“Why not send him to a nursery in your #language?” one mother asks.

“I can’t,” #author #SamanthaEllis responds. “My language is dead.”

#Ellis grew up speaking #Judeo-#Iraqi #Arabic. Her #mothertongue isn’t exactly dead, but it is dying, like many #Jewish languages that are not #Hebrew or #Yiddish, and like many of the beautiful Jewish languages spoken by #Jews of the #Arab world."

https://forward.com/culture/books/829874/always-carry-salt-samantha-ellis-judeo-iraqi-arabic/

"In #TikTok videos viewed tens of thousands of times, 31-year-old #DanSheena dons a blond wig and acts out skits of a bickering #Iraqi couple in a #language that is nearly extinct: #Judeo-#Arabic.

#Sheena began posting videos on TikTok in 2023, speaking the endangered language, which today is rarely spoken by anyone under the age of 60, following the mass exodus of #Jews from #Arab countries due to discrimination and religious persecution.

Raised by two parents from #Baghdad, Sheena grew up in #Israel and spoke the language at home. That’s a rarity among second- and third-generation Iraqi Jews, whose families often stopped passing it down in an effort to assimilate.

From a young age, Sheena, who still lives in Israel, knew he wanted to become an Arabic teacher. After years of teaching conversational Arabic in the public school system, he became determined to preserve the dialect he grew up with.

When Sheena told his family that he wanted to teach #JudeoArabic..."

https://forward.com/news/814183/dan-sheena-judeo-arabic-iraqi-jews/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Agi: Milei all'Economic Forum a Madrid: I valori giudaico-cristiani sono il fondamento dell'Occidente

AGI/Vista - "E ovviamente, quando si parla di ciò che è giusto, a questo sono associati anche i nostri valori. Che vi piaccia o no, i valori dell’Occidente sono i valori giudeo-cristiani. In questo senso, la realtà è che se rispettassimo i Dieci Comandamenti, se capissimo quali sono i peccati capitali e il 'non fare' del giudaismo, avrei la piena certezza che l'immonda spazzatura del socialismo sparirebbe dalla faccia della terra, affinché tutti noi si possa prosperare", così il Presidente argentino Javier Milei all'Economic Forum di Madrid. Courtesy: Madrid Economic Forum Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev

Milei at the Economic Forum in Madrid: Judeo-Christian values are the foundation of the West.

“And obviously, when we’re talking about what’s right, these are also our values. Whether you like it or not, the values of the West are Judeo-Christian values. In this sense, the reality is that if we respected the Ten Commandments, if we understood what the deadly sins and the ‘don’t’ of Judaism are, I would be fully certain that the disgusting garbage of socialism would disappear from the face of the earth, so that we could all prosper,” said Argentine President Javier Milei at the Economic Forum in Madrid. Courtesy: Madrid Economic Forum Source: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev

#theEconomicForum #Madrid #Judeo-Christian #Argentine #JavierMilei

https://www.agi.it/vista-tv/video/2026-03-16/milei-all-economic-forum-a-madrid-i-valori-giudaico-cristiani-sono-il-fondamento-dell-occidente-36139829/

#Chancen | Sava Ranisavljevic Visiting Assistant Professorship in Judeo-Spanish Studies, @‌Northwestern University | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/sava-ranisavljevic-visiting-assistant-professorship-in-judeo-spanish-studies-northwestern-university/

#sefarad #judeo-spanishstudies

@‌fidromanistik

Deadline for applications: December 15, 2025

Max Pam: »…#Wilders …: ‘We moeten onze naties redden, die gebaseerd zijn op de #Judeo-#Christelijke waarden.’

Ha, daar is het misverstand weer! Ik overdrijf niet als ik zeg dat Europese #Joden al eeuwen weten wat die zogenaamde … waarden inhouden: pogroms, #vervolging en #vernietiging. Het woord ‘#pogrom’, dat ik de afgelopen week vaak heb horen vallen, hoofdzakelijk uit monden van mensen die geen idee hebben, komt voort uit een Russisch-christelijke traditie.«

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/je-krijgt-het-donkerbruine-vermoeden-dat-joden-vooral-worden-gebruikt-als-politiek-wisselgeld~b4dedb68/

Hey #fedivere, suggest some people to follow?

My interests:
#LGBTQ
#Transgender and #transrights
#Progressive #Judaism, culturally, spiritually, textual, and academic
#queer fashion
#Memoirs - especially for those who fall under the above groups
#Linguistics, specifically #Yiddish (my mother tongue), #Hebrew and #Aramaic (my 2nd and 3rd languages), ancient #MiddleEastern, and all #Judeo- languages
#History

And the intersections of all the above.

NOT looking for more cis-straight men.